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Gregorian, “Brothers in Arms”

Gregorian, “Brothers in Arms” (Scenes from the movie “Vaya Con Dios”

“Brothers in Arms” is a 1985 song by Dire Straits, appearing as the closing track on the album of the same name. It is in G# minor. It was originally written in 1982, the year of the Falklands War. It was re-released in 2007 as a special edition to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the conflict and raise funds for veterans of it with posttraumatic stress disorder.

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I’ve witnessed your suffering
As the battle raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

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David Guetta, “Titanium”

David Guetta, “Titanium” Featuring Sia

Pierre David Guetta is a French DJ, record producer and remixer. He co-founded Gum Productions with Lisa Dodgson and released his first album, Just a Little More Love, in 2002. Later, he released Guetta Blaster (2004) and Pop Life (2007) featuring 2 tracks with the UK’s Tara McDonald.

Guetta achieved mainstream success with his 2009 album One Love which included the hit singles “When Love Takes Over”, “Gettin’ Over You”, and “Sexy Bitch”, all three of which reached #1 in the United Kingdom, and “Memories”. The 2011 follow-up album, Nothing but the Beat, continued this success, containing the hit singles “Where Them Girls At”, “Little Bad Girl”, “Without You”, “Titanium” and “Turn Me On”.

Guetta has sold over nine million albums and 30 million singles worldwide. In 2011 Guetta was voted as the #1 DJ in the ‘DJ Mag Top 100 DJs’ fan poll.

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Hozier, “Take Me to Church”

Hozier, “Take Me to Church”

Hozier was born in Bray, Ireland, the son of a local blues musician. He attended St. Gerard’s School before he began studying music at Trinity College, Dublin, but dropped out midway through his first year to record demos for Universal Music. While at Trinity, he became involved with the Trinity Orchestra. He was a member of the chorale ensemble Anúna from 2007 to 2012, and appears as a soloist on their 2012 release Illumination singing “La Chanson de Mardi Gras. He toured and sang with the group internationally including performances in Norway and the Netherlands.

In 2013, Hozier released the EP Take Me to Church (also containing “Like Real People Do”, “Angel of Small Death and The Codeine Scene” and a live version of “Cherry Wine”), with the title track becoming his breakthrough single after it went viral on YouTube. It reached number one on iTunes on 25 October 2013. Hozier followed up Take Me to Church with the new EP From Eden (also containing “Work Song”, “Arsonist’s Lullabye” and a live version of “To Be Alone”), and a number of festival tour dates and television appearances in the United States.

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Hans Zimmer, “Time”

Hans Zimmer, “Time”, Composed for the Soundtrack of the Movie “Inception”

Hans Zimmer is one of the geniuses of soundtrack composition. There are very few who reach his quality and intensity. You know his work; although you may not know his name. Gladiator; Batman the Dark Knight; Interstellar; The Last Samurai.

Enjoy. Listen to more of his work.

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The Stealth Bomber

The Stealth Bomber Electric Bike from Sweden

Ultra-powerful electric bike with nine pedal speeds using an internal gearbox in the bottom bracket. Top speed of 50 miles per hour with a 1.5 kwh battery pack and 4,500 watt motor. Long travel front and rear suspension to soak up bumps and jumps, this thing is more motocross than ebike.

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States of Emotion, “Into the Dream Catcher”

States of Emotion, “Into the Dream Catcher”

As a taster for the 15/02/16 release of “Black & White To Gold” States of Emotion, an Essex band, will release a free 5 track EP via Noisetrade titled “Rag n Bone Men” on 11/01/16. Title track “Rag n Bone Men” is accompanied with an eerily raw video (directed by Martin Craswell) which features both Olly & Bonzai being kidnapped by a group of ghoulish henchmen in a somewhat bizarre homage to Shane Meadow’s “This Is England” and 2008 horror flick “The Strangers.”

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Yelawolf, “Til It’s Gone”

Yelawolf, “Til It’s Gone”

“Till It’s Gone” was recorded at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Tennessee with mixing engineer Matthew Hayes and producer William “WLPWR” Washington, who also performed keyboards, pads, drums, programming and strings on the song; Mike Hartnett performed guitar and bass guitar. The song originated as an acoustic guitar riff, which was then looped and used as the backing for lyrics which were written “in a couple hours”. Due to its “dark and swampy” tone, the track was originally known as “The Swampy Record”.

On September 16, 2014, “Till It’s Gone” was featured on the second episode of the seventh season of American crime drama television series Sons of Anarchy, an inclusion which Yelawolf described as a “perfect fit”. Speaking about the lyrical themes on display in “Till It’s Gone”, Yelawolf has described the song as “very aggressive” and “very dark”, and notes that “It’s juxtaposed with this melody and the hook that gives it the power”. About the music, he has described the beat as “dope, swampy, alligator, snake-infested, gangrene, and dark”.

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Tinariwen, “Toumast Tincha”

Tinariwen, “Toumast Tincha” from the Album “Emmaar”

Tinariwen was founded by Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, who at age four witnessed the execution of his father (a Tuareg rebel) during a 1963 uprising in Mali. As a child he saw a western film in which a cowboy played a guitar. Ag Alhabib built his own guitar out of a tin can, a stick and bicycle brake wire. He started to play old Tuareg and modern Arabic pop tunes. Ag Alhabib first lived in Algeria in refugee camps near Bordj Badji Mokhtar and in the deserts around the southern city of Tamanrasset, where he received a guitar from a local Arab man. Later, he resided with other Tuareg exiles in Libya and Algeria.

In the late 1970s Ag Alhabib joined with other musicians in the Tuareg rebel community, exploring the radical chaabi protest music of Moroccan groups like Nass El Ghiwane and Jil Jilala; Algerian pop rai; and western rock and pop artists like Elvis Presley, Led Zeppelin, Carlos Santana, Dire Straits, Jimi Hendrix, Boney M, and Bob Marley. Ag Alhabib formed a group with Alhassane Ag Touhami and brothers Inteyeden Ag Ablil and Liya Ag Ablil in Tamanrasset, Algeria to play at parties and weddings. Ag Alhabib acquired his first real acoustic guitar in 1979. While the group had no official name, people began to call them Kel Tinariwen, which in the Tamashek language translates as “The People of the Deserts” or “The Desert Boys.”

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